Babak Vajdi Hokmabad
@babakvh.bsky.social
Postdoc | Princeton University
Active soft matter, Fluid mechanics, Biophysics.
https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=en&user=QLNh8EwAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Active soft matter, Fluid mechanics, Biophysics.
https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=en&user=QLNh8EwAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Pinned
Excited to release our latest work:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Here, we describe how confined bacterial suspensions self-organize into structured domains of different motilities, in response to oxygen limitations🦠🍥
Bluetorial follows! [1/8]
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Here, we describe how confined bacterial suspensions self-organize into structured domains of different motilities, in response to oxygen limitations🦠🍥
Bluetorial follows! [1/8]
Excited to see this paper out @pnas.org
Microbial self-organization in response to self-made oxygen gradients! 🦠 🔄 🍥
Microbial self-organization in response to self-made oxygen gradients! 🦠 🔄 🍥
Excited to see this paper out @pnas.org
Microbial self-organization in response to self-made oxygen gradients! 🦠 🔄 🍥
Microbial self-organization in response to self-made oxygen gradients! 🦠 🔄 🍥
Excited to release our latest work:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Here, we describe how confined bacterial suspensions self-organize into structured domains of different motilities, in response to oxygen limitations🦠🍥
Bluetorial follows! [1/8]
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Here, we describe how confined bacterial suspensions self-organize into structured domains of different motilities, in response to oxygen limitations🦠🍥
Bluetorial follows! [1/8]
October 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Excited to see this paper out @pnas.org
Microbial self-organization in response to self-made oxygen gradients! 🦠 🔄 🍥
Microbial self-organization in response to self-made oxygen gradients! 🦠 🔄 🍥
Reposted by Babak Vajdi Hokmabad
PhD or Master's position available for Fall 2026!
Interested in how actin drives cell crawling, eating, dividing, or osmoregulation? What about pathogenesis of a brain-eating amoeba? Or eukaryotic evolution? If so, apply through my website: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science/cont...
Please share!
Interested in how actin drives cell crawling, eating, dividing, or osmoregulation? What about pathogenesis of a brain-eating amoeba? Or eukaryotic evolution? If so, apply through my website: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science/cont...
Please share!
October 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
PhD or Master's position available for Fall 2026!
Interested in how actin drives cell crawling, eating, dividing, or osmoregulation? What about pathogenesis of a brain-eating amoeba? Or eukaryotic evolution? If so, apply through my website: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science/cont...
Please share!
Interested in how actin drives cell crawling, eating, dividing, or osmoregulation? What about pathogenesis of a brain-eating amoeba? Or eukaryotic evolution? If so, apply through my website: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science/cont...
Please share!
Reposted by Babak Vajdi Hokmabad
We have a postdoc opening for a protistologist with biophysics inclinations to join our @hfspo.bsky.social project! (focus will be on characterising the morphology, ultrastructure and behaviour of excavates) #protistsonsky
Apply by Sept 17th (RTs appreciated!)
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Apply by Sept 17th (RTs appreciated!)
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
August 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
We have a postdoc opening for a protistologist with biophysics inclinations to join our @hfspo.bsky.social project! (focus will be on characterising the morphology, ultrastructure and behaviour of excavates) #protistsonsky
Apply by Sept 17th (RTs appreciated!)
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Apply by Sept 17th (RTs appreciated!)
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Reposted by Babak Vajdi Hokmabad
Excited to release our latest work:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Here, we describe how confined bacterial suspensions self-organize into structured domains of different motilities, in response to oxygen limitations🦠🍥
Bluetorial follows! [1/8]
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Here, we describe how confined bacterial suspensions self-organize into structured domains of different motilities, in response to oxygen limitations🦠🍥
Bluetorial follows! [1/8]
February 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Excited to release our latest work:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Here, we describe how confined bacterial suspensions self-organize into structured domains of different motilities, in response to oxygen limitations🦠🍥
Bluetorial follows! [1/8]
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Here, we describe how confined bacterial suspensions self-organize into structured domains of different motilities, in response to oxygen limitations🦠🍥
Bluetorial follows! [1/8]
Reposted by Babak Vajdi Hokmabad
1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment - Nature
In the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment, diploid yeast evolve to be tetraploid under selection for larger multicellular size, revealing how whole-genome duplication can arise due to its...
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Excited to release our latest work:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Here, we describe how confined bacterial suspensions self-organize into structured domains of different motilities, in response to oxygen limitations🦠🍥
Bluetorial follows! [1/8]
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Here, we describe how confined bacterial suspensions self-organize into structured domains of different motilities, in response to oxygen limitations🦠🍥
Bluetorial follows! [1/8]
February 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Excited to release our latest work:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Here, we describe how confined bacterial suspensions self-organize into structured domains of different motilities, in response to oxygen limitations🦠🍥
Bluetorial follows! [1/8]
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Here, we describe how confined bacterial suspensions self-organize into structured domains of different motilities, in response to oxygen limitations🦠🍥
Bluetorial follows! [1/8]
Reposted by Babak Vajdi Hokmabad
I'm so happy that I can finally share the results of my first postdoc paper with @baym.lol!!! Turns out plasmids are an amazing system to study multi-scale evolution and we can track within-cell and between-cell dynamics!
(1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/earl...
(1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/earl...
Intracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamics
Conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution, from populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements in microbes. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-r...
www.biorxiv.org
February 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I'm so happy that I can finally share the results of my first postdoc paper with @baym.lol!!! Turns out plasmids are an amazing system to study multi-scale evolution and we can track within-cell and between-cell dynamics!
(1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/earl...
(1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/earl...
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The 🪱 mania continues!
In our latest study, led by Rosa, we explored the locomotion and dynamics of living worms—acting as active polymers—navigating a porous environment made of 3D-printed pillar arrays. And we found something surprising...
In our latest study, led by Rosa, we explored the locomotion and dynamics of living worms—acting as active polymers—navigating a porous environment made of 3D-printed pillar arrays. And we found something surprising...
February 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The 🪱 mania continues!
In our latest study, led by Rosa, we explored the locomotion and dynamics of living worms—acting as active polymers—navigating a porous environment made of 3D-printed pillar arrays. And we found something surprising...
In our latest study, led by Rosa, we explored the locomotion and dynamics of living worms—acting as active polymers—navigating a porous environment made of 3D-printed pillar arrays. And we found something surprising...
Reposted by Babak Vajdi Hokmabad
Spatial population dynamics of bacterial colonies with social antibiotic resistance
#PNAS by @marlis.bsky.social and late Kevin B. Wood
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#PNAS by @marlis.bsky.social and late Kevin B. Wood
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
February 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Spatial population dynamics of bacterial colonies with social antibiotic resistance
#PNAS by @marlis.bsky.social and late Kevin B. Wood
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#PNAS by @marlis.bsky.social and late Kevin B. Wood
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Babak Vajdi Hokmabad
Stickiness matters! From powder handling to geophysical flows, cohesion in granular material plays a crucial role. We review in Soft Matter @roysocchem.bsky.social experimental approaches to create and control inter-particle adhesion pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
February 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Stickiness matters! From powder handling to geophysical flows, cohesion in granular material plays a crucial role. We review in Soft Matter @roysocchem.bsky.social experimental approaches to create and control inter-particle adhesion pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Reposted by Babak Vajdi Hokmabad
🄱🄸🄾🄵🄸🄻🄼
🄱🄸🄾🄿🄷🅈🅂🄸🄲🅂
Fascinating work from Sebastian Gonzalez La Corte, Sujit Data, et al at CalTech on polymer-induced entropic attractions that hinder diffusion and lead bacteria to form long spaghetti-like cables within mucus and biofilms
Paper in Science Advances: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🄱🄸🄾🄿🄷🅈🅂🄸🄲🅂
Fascinating work from Sebastian Gonzalez La Corte, Sujit Data, et al at CalTech on polymer-induced entropic attractions that hinder diffusion and lead bacteria to form long spaghetti-like cables within mucus and biofilms
Paper in Science Advances: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
January 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🄱🄸🄾🄵🄸🄻🄼
🄱🄸🄾🄿🄷🅈🅂🄸🄲🅂
Fascinating work from Sebastian Gonzalez La Corte, Sujit Data, et al at CalTech on polymer-induced entropic attractions that hinder diffusion and lead bacteria to form long spaghetti-like cables within mucus and biofilms
Paper in Science Advances: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🄱🄸🄾🄿🄷🅈🅂🄸🄲🅂
Fascinating work from Sebastian Gonzalez La Corte, Sujit Data, et al at CalTech on polymer-induced entropic attractions that hinder diffusion and lead bacteria to form long spaghetti-like cables within mucus and biofilms
Paper in Science Advances: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Babak Vajdi Hokmabad
Fresh off the press, our work on wing deployment in Drosophila 🪰:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Work by: Simon Hadjaje, Ignacio Andrade-Silva, Marie-Julie Dalbe and Raphaël Clément
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Work by: Simon Hadjaje, Ignacio Andrade-Silva, Marie-Julie Dalbe and Raphaël Clément
December 11, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Fresh off the press, our work on wing deployment in Drosophila 🪰:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Work by: Simon Hadjaje, Ignacio Andrade-Silva, Marie-Julie Dalbe and Raphaël Clément
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Work by: Simon Hadjaje, Ignacio Andrade-Silva, Marie-Julie Dalbe and Raphaël Clément
Reposted by Babak Vajdi Hokmabad
Reposted by Babak Vajdi Hokmabad
Starter Pack: Collective #CellMigration /Dynamics is growing. Looking at related emergent phenomena eg. #intercallation, dorsal closure or branching #morphogenesis? Reach out! Also modelers, soft-matter physicists & YOUNG scientists etc etc!
go.bsky.app/DLUDYX3
#cellbio #SoftMatterPhysics #science
go.bsky.app/DLUDYX3
#cellbio #SoftMatterPhysics #science
November 19, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Starter Pack: Collective #CellMigration /Dynamics is growing. Looking at related emergent phenomena eg. #intercallation, dorsal closure or branching #morphogenesis? Reach out! Also modelers, soft-matter physicists & YOUNG scientists etc etc!
go.bsky.app/DLUDYX3
#cellbio #SoftMatterPhysics #science
go.bsky.app/DLUDYX3
#cellbio #SoftMatterPhysics #science
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💥Beyond happy 💥 Our work is now published in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
With Gloria Canales & @mazi1.bsky.social we studied how the single celled alga Pyrocystis lunula 🌙 move their chloroplast in response to strong light.
Get ready for some fun mechanics, signals and organelle motion! 🧵
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
With Gloria Canales & @mazi1.bsky.social we studied how the single celled alga Pyrocystis lunula 🌙 move their chloroplast in response to strong light.
Get ready for some fun mechanics, signals and organelle motion! 🧵
November 19, 2024 at 9:47 AM
💥Beyond happy 💥 Our work is now published in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
With Gloria Canales & @mazi1.bsky.social we studied how the single celled alga Pyrocystis lunula 🌙 move their chloroplast in response to strong light.
Get ready for some fun mechanics, signals and organelle motion! 🧵
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
With Gloria Canales & @mazi1.bsky.social we studied how the single celled alga Pyrocystis lunula 🌙 move their chloroplast in response to strong light.
Get ready for some fun mechanics, signals and organelle motion! 🧵
Reposted by Babak Vajdi Hokmabad
Deformable bodies relaxing in a nematic liquid crystal. (I settled on Paraview!) I want to eat them.
A review of 'Rigid and deformable bodies in nematic liquid crystals', with the amazing Tom Chandler, is out today in Phys. Rev. Fluids. @apsphysics.bsky.social 🧪⚛️
journals.aps.org/prfluids/abs...
A review of 'Rigid and deformable bodies in nematic liquid crystals', with the amazing Tom Chandler, is out today in Phys. Rev. Fluids. @apsphysics.bsky.social 🧪⚛️
journals.aps.org/prfluids/abs...
November 20, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Deformable bodies relaxing in a nematic liquid crystal. (I settled on Paraview!) I want to eat them.
A review of 'Rigid and deformable bodies in nematic liquid crystals', with the amazing Tom Chandler, is out today in Phys. Rev. Fluids. @apsphysics.bsky.social 🧪⚛️
journals.aps.org/prfluids/abs...
A review of 'Rigid and deformable bodies in nematic liquid crystals', with the amazing Tom Chandler, is out today in Phys. Rev. Fluids. @apsphysics.bsky.social 🧪⚛️
journals.aps.org/prfluids/abs...
Reposted by Babak Vajdi Hokmabad
Hello Bluesky! I will post about what we do in my lab on Fluid-Structure Interactions, Fluid Mechanics, Flow Visualizations, and Nonlinear Dynamics.
www.umass.edu/fsi/index.html
www.umass.edu/fsi/index.html
November 18, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Hello Bluesky! I will post about what we do in my lab on Fluid-Structure Interactions, Fluid Mechanics, Flow Visualizations, and Nonlinear Dynamics.
www.umass.edu/fsi/index.html
www.umass.edu/fsi/index.html
Reposted by Babak Vajdi Hokmabad
Do you feel stressed?
Is it one thing or a combination?
Turns out bacteria can’t handle stress either!
Excited to share my first first author paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
Combining multiple stressors blocks bacterial migration and growth! www.cell.com/current-biol...
Is it one thing or a combination?
Turns out bacteria can’t handle stress either!
Excited to share my first first author paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
Combining multiple stressors blocks bacterial migration and growth! www.cell.com/current-biol...
November 19, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Do you feel stressed?
Is it one thing or a combination?
Turns out bacteria can’t handle stress either!
Excited to share my first first author paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
Combining multiple stressors blocks bacterial migration and growth! www.cell.com/current-biol...
Is it one thing or a combination?
Turns out bacteria can’t handle stress either!
Excited to share my first first author paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social!
Combining multiple stressors blocks bacterial migration and growth! www.cell.com/current-biol...
Reposted by Babak Vajdi Hokmabad
Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian activist who is serving a 10-year sentence in Tehran, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.” nyti.ms/3Q6O3sL
October 6, 2023 at 4:06 PM
Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian activist who is serving a 10-year sentence in Tehran, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.” nyti.ms/3Q6O3sL
Reposted by Babak Vajdi Hokmabad
7/ #31nightsofhalloween #microscreepy
Gummy worms!
... or the tracks of cells before (green) vs after (orange) being squashed to a 5 micron ceiling. They tend to crawl faster when squished. Circles are the pillars holding up the ceiling.
Gummy worms!
... or the tracks of cells before (green) vs after (orange) being squashed to a 5 micron ceiling. They tend to crawl faster when squished. Circles are the pillars holding up the ceiling.
October 7, 2023 at 1:00 PM
7/ #31nightsofhalloween #microscreepy
Gummy worms!
... or the tracks of cells before (green) vs after (orange) being squashed to a 5 micron ceiling. They tend to crawl faster when squished. Circles are the pillars holding up the ceiling.
Gummy worms!
... or the tracks of cells before (green) vs after (orange) being squashed to a 5 micron ceiling. They tend to crawl faster when squished. Circles are the pillars holding up the ceiling.
We had a lot of fun doing this experiment! amoebae in a microgel ball pit!
Happy #MicroscopyMonday!
Last week I had a blast visiting the Datta Lab and working with @babakvh.bsky.social and @meeraramaswamy.bsky.social to watch cells dig into a 3D matrix! Bluesky doesn't have a video option yet, so here's a max intensity projection of a video (LUT: CM Ocean Deep, inverted)
Last week I had a blast visiting the Datta Lab and working with @babakvh.bsky.social and @meeraramaswamy.bsky.social to watch cells dig into a 3D matrix! Bluesky doesn't have a video option yet, so here's a max intensity projection of a video (LUT: CM Ocean Deep, inverted)
September 13, 2023 at 12:28 AM
We had a lot of fun doing this experiment! amoebae in a microgel ball pit!
Reposted by Babak Vajdi Hokmabad
The non-attached biofilm aggregate
CommsBio Review by Kasper Kragh, Tim-Tolker Nielsen and Mads Lichtenberg
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
CommsBio Review by Kasper Kragh, Tim-Tolker Nielsen and Mads Lichtenberg
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
September 2, 2023 at 11:24 AM
The non-attached biofilm aggregate
CommsBio Review by Kasper Kragh, Tim-Tolker Nielsen and Mads Lichtenberg
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
CommsBio Review by Kasper Kragh, Tim-Tolker Nielsen and Mads Lichtenberg
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Excited to share our latest work on the captivating "Interfacial activity dynamics of confined active droplets" now published at Journal of Fluid Mechanics
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Interfacial activity dynamics of confined active droplets | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Cambridge C...
Interfacial activity dynamics of confined active droplets - Volume 966
www.cambridge.org
August 23, 2023 at 1:14 AM
Excited to share our latest work on the captivating "Interfacial activity dynamics of confined active droplets" now published at Journal of Fluid Mechanics
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...